Another Friday

With the Dyson all charged up I spent about an hour vacuuming. It really is great. It is so light and the ball does make it more manoeuvrable. And, no cord!

Also today the Westies were groomed. The groomer is only about five minutes away and on our side of the canal! She is so busy we had to wait over a month for an appointment. Even though she admitted she was a bit rusty on grooming Westies, she did a great job.

For some reason grocery stores in CB don’t stock flank steak. We have a barbeque recipe for it that we love and were hoping to serve for the folks on Sunday. Brigitte has tracked down the “meat lady” who we will meet with tonight and she will bring us some.  

The meat lady is actually an organic farm located about 20 km from us.  The farm, named Katherine Farm is a small family run organic farm in Roberta.  

Later in the day

As it turned out it was actually the meat lady’s husband we met. He had three freezers on his trailer—the open kind with the back that folds down to make a ramp, often used by landscapers. He had a generator on the back of his pickup truck. He had already been to Port Hawkesbury and the freezers were getting empty. We met him at the Lions Club and when we got there, there were customers lined up. We got two flank steaks and some other cuts of meat. It doesn’t look good when your jonesin’ for a flank steak and have to meet up with your supplier on the back streets of St. Peter’s to get your fix.

Brigitte told you about going for the kayak lesson last week, but she omitted one interesting detail. Our instructor was Eberhard who had a mild german accent. He asked us where were from. “St. Peter’s” we responded. He got quite excited and said that he had given lessons to people from all over Europe and North America, but had never given a lesson to locals. Over the course of the hour and half with him, after he discovered we didn’t know where everything is and who everyone is, so, we had to admit that we had only been living here for only two months. “So you are ‘come from aways’.”  He did his best to hide his disappointment.

Paul